Don DeLillo

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#catholic #certain #certain way #death #die

America was and is the immigrant's dream. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#dream #immigrant

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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